Packages & containers
deb / rpm / MSI / Docker / Homebrew / Scoop — signed, multi-arch.
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Run ZeroDDS in production
Deploy, secure, observe, upgrade. Every dial, every plugin, every observability hook is documented — for the people who run the bus, not the people who wrote the code.
Deploy & configure
Get ZeroDDS onto the machines, wire it to your network, set the QoS profile that matches the workload.
Deployment topologies
Single-node, multi-node, multi-vendor mesh — three reference topologies with config snippets you can lift.
QoS cookbook
Five tested QoS profiles: best-effort streaming, reliable telemetry, durable history, deadline-bound control, transient command.
Discovery
SPDP for participant announce, SEDP for endpoint exchange, static discovery for locked-down deployments.
Transport tuning
UDP, TCP, shared memory (iceoryx2). Buffer sizes, busy-poll, RT pinning, recv-thread per socket.
Secure & govern
DDS-Security plugin chain, TLS, identity, access control, audit logging — and the policy artefacts that prove compliance.
Security plugin chain
Authentication, Access Control, Cryptography, Logging — the four DDS-Security 1.2 plugins, wired together.
Identity & PKI
X.509 identity certs, governance.xml + permissions.xml authoring, key-exchange policies, CRL handling.
TLS & transports
rustls-based TLS over TCP. CSIv2 SAS/ATLAS/GSSUP for CORBA interop. TLS 1.2+, no legacy SSL.
Audit logging
security-logging plugin emits structured audit records to syslog, journald or OTLP.
Compliance artefacts
Spec-coverage reports, SBOMs (SPDX + CycloneDX), signed releases via minisign + cosign.
Observe & troubleshoot
From a green dashboard to a post-mortem of a 3-AM alert — metrics, traces, recordings and the inspect-endpoint.
Monitoring
31 first-class Prometheus metrics covering discovery, RTPS reliability, sample state, QoS deadlines.
Admin tooling
zerodds-cli for participant inspection, topic listing, QoS dump, SPDP probing, live match diagnostics.
Record / replay
.zddsrec — deterministic record-and-replay format with stable indexes. CI fixtures, regression captures, post-mortems.
Inspect endpoint
zerodds-inspect-endpoint is a feature-gated tap into a running participant — pair with PDE Reality Inspector.
Web admin (DDS-WEB)
REST gateway following OMG DDS-WEB 1.0 — admin actions over HTTPS, no DDS client needed.
Lifecycle & quality
Dev environment, CI, CD, upgrade, conformance — the workflow that gets a ZeroDDS change from a developer's branch to a production node.
Dev environment
Local cargo workspace, devcontainer-config for VS Code, JetBrains and codespaces. Pre-commit hooks for fmt, clippy, dds-lint.
CI integration
cargo test, dds-lint as a CI step, spec-coverage gating, cross-vendor interop tests. GitLab + GitHub CI templates.
CD & release
Multi-arch builds (linux/amd64, linux/arm64, macos, win), signed packages, per-daemon container images on Docker Hub and ghcr.io, crates.io publish per release.
Upgrade & rollback
Wire-stable across patch versions. XTypes annotations carry forward compatibility. Rolling upgrade with a mixed-version mesh, no downtime.
Conformance & QM
Spec-coverage reports per OMG document. Live cross-vendor interop in CI. Public per-release QM report.
Vendor comparison
Side-by-side per-feature evaluation against Cyclone DDS, Fast-DDS (OSS + Pro), RTI Connext, OpenDDS, dust-dds and RustDDS. ~80 feature rows across 8 sections with per-cell footnotes and source links.